Although Mr. Nacchio is allowed to tell the jury that he and James Payne went into that meeting expecting to talk about the "Groundbreaker" project and came out of the meeting with optimism about the prospect for 2001 revenue from NSA, the Court has prohibited Mr. Nacchio from eliciting testimony regarding what also occurred at that meeting.

As the director of the NSA, even with such institutional resources and programs such as the NRO, NGA (then known as NIMA), Project Groundbreaker and Trailblazer, you claim to have had no indication of "Al-Qaeda's plan to attack NY or Washington or the US in general."